The Long Way of Lustration in Eastern Europe

The article represents an excerpt the results of a comparative study on lustration in Eastern Europe. It analyses the cases of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania and Slovenia. The conclusion is that the eastern countries has taken different ways regarding to the concrete methods, and in some of the countries this process could not lead to a wipe of the communist party’s activists and secret police’s agents from the post-communism’s elite.